Skip to main content

1927 Middy Bread Reprints

 

Danny Clark is a Syracuse Baseball Wall of Famer that played for the Syracuse Stars in the International League. In 1926 Clark was having an exceptional season hitting .362 with 32 homers when in September the St. Louis Cardinals obtained the rights to his contract and took him away from the Syracuse ballclub (SABR). Hence, the Wall of Fame recognition.

As far as I can tell, other than reprints, there have been only two Danny Clark baseball cards ever produced. One is 1923-24 Exhibits W461, #5 when Clark was with the Red Sox. This card is available on ebay, ungraded, for $150 (see snip below).

The only other original card of Clark is a 1927 Middy Bread, #NNO card, when Clark was with the St. Louis Cardinals. This card is currently available on ebay, graded (VG), for $800 (again, see snip below).

Clearly, I'm not paying that kind of money for either one of those.

But, I waneed a Clark card for my SYR WoF collection!

Thank goodness for reprints! 

In 1992 I understand that reprints were made of the 1927 Middy Bread 42 card set of the St. Louis Cardinals and the St. Louis Browns. The original cards were issued die cut and feature black and white body poses 3 to 4 inches high and are blank backed. The reprint set was issued on the standard size card 2-1/2” x 3-1/2”, not die cut, with a black background. I was able to purchase the Cardinal reprint set of 23 cards for $30. 

In the 23 card Cardinals set there are six National Baseball Hall of Famers, three of which are also Syracuse Baseball WoFers, and two other Syracuse WoFers!

For someone that collects National Baseball HoFer and Syracuse Baseball WoFers, this is nice haul at a very reasonable price. 

Those of you that follow this blog (thank you), you may have come to know that I'm not hesitant to go the reprint route as opposed to spending my retirement money on high-priced original cards. My goal is to get a card of each member of the exclusive HoF or WoF club (including Cincinnati Reds HoF) for a pictorial (cardorial?!?) history of such players. Once I get at least one card of each member of said club I may try to upgrade with better representations. Until then, I'm happy with reprints and low grade cards.

Below are scans of 1992 reprints of 1927 Middy Bread cards of St. Louis Cardinals Syracuse Baseball WoFers and National Baseball HoFers.

Syracuse Baseball Wall of Famer Danny Clark.


Ebay snip of 1923-24 Exhibits W461, Danny Clark card #5.

Ebay snip of original 1927 Middy Bread Danny Clark card #NNO.

Syracuse Baseball Wall of Famer George "Specs" Toporcer.


Syracuse Baseball Wall of Famer Tommy Thevenow.

Syracuse Baseball Wall of Famer and National Baseball Hall of Famer "Sunny" Jim Bottomley.


Syracuse Baseball Wall of Famer and National Baseball Hall of Famer Chic (sic) Hafey.


Syracuse Baseball Wall of Famer and National Baseball Hall of Famer Grover Cleveland "Pete" Alexander.

National Baseball Hall of Famer Frankie Frisch.

National Baseball Hall of Famer Jesse Haines.

National Baseball Hall of Famer Billy Southworth.

Thanks for stopping by, and be well!
CinciCuse Bill
Labels:

Comments

  1. FujiOctober 11, 2020 at 2:01 PM

    As a collector on a budget, I understand going the reprint route. That's realistically the only way I'm ever going to own a 1951 Bowman Mantle or a 1933 DeLong Jimmie Foxx.

    ReplyDelete
  2. CinciCuse BillOctober 11, 2020 at 3:38 PM

    I'm with you. Those are truly classic waneed cards :)

    ReplyDelete

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Ballplayers Turned Announcers, Actors, Writers, Etc.

  We all know of ballplayers that become announcers, actors, or writers. This post shows cards for a few notable examples, as well as a few other players with occupations that you may not be aware of. Announcers 1952 Topps card #227. Not only was Joe Garagiola a catcher for parts of nine season with four clubs, but he was also an announcer, writer, and host of numerous television shows. Joe was honored by the Baseball Hall of Fame with the Ford C. Frick Award for outstanding broadcasting accomplishments and he was named as the 2014 recipient of the Buck O'Neil Lifetime Achievement Award, presented once every three years by the Baseball Hall of Fame for positive contributions to Major League Baseball.     1965 Topps card #65. Tony Kubek played for the Yankees for nine seasons, winning the 1957 Rookie of the Year award and selected to three All-Star games. Kubek played in six World Series in the late 1950s and early 1960s, starting in 37 World Series games. Upon his retirement, Kubek
6 comments
Read more

Welcome to my first post!

Original, well-loved, cards from my youth. Rose: "I'd walk through hell in a gasoline suit to play baseball." My Story: I started collecting sports cards back in 1970 when I was about 9-yrs old. If I recall correctly, the first packs I opened in 70 and 71 contained a card of Pete Rose. Rose became my favorite player because of his hustle and desire to win, and he was one of the main cogs of the Cincinnati Reds Big Red Machine, my favorite team. (I still consider Rose to be one of the best players ever, but I have no respect for what he has done outside of the white lines) I collected a lot of cards up until mid 1975 which is when my interests changed, but I never got rid of those cards (nor were they thrown away by mom or dad, thankfully). I got back into collecting, on and off, from the mid 80's up to this day, but only baseball cards. Over the years, I realized I had a fairly decent collection of player cards from those days and started to organize my co
9 comments
Read more

4 Home Run Games

A player hitting four home runs in one game has only been achieved 18 times in MLB history. No one has done it twice. In this collection, I try to obtain cards that acknowledge this rare feat with preferably some notation on the front of the card, but if I can't find that I look for some acknowledgement on the back of the card. 1. On Memorial Day May 30, 1894 Bobby Lowe became the first MLB player to hit 4 HRs in one game when his Boston Beaneaters beat the Cincinnati Reds 20 - 11. The HRs were hit consecutively. Although this card pictures Bobby Lowe with Milwaukee of the Western Association, he made it to the majors in 1890 and spent 18 years in the majors. His best season was 1894 when he had 212 hits, 17 HRs, 115 RBIs and a .346 BA. Bobby Lowe Old Judge Reprint. 2. On July 13, 1896 Ed Delahanty became the 2nd player to hit 4 HRS in one game, 2 of which were inside-the-park. Despite this feat, his Philadelphia Phillies lost to the Chicago Colts 9 - 8. Delahanty hit over
9 comments
Read more